Mistah Kurtz—He Bagged: McChrystal Resigns

...according to Joe Klein on CNN. No details yet.

...or maybe not. Joe Klein tweets that McChrystal has “offered” his resignation. Josh Marshall urges wait-and-see.

More unattributed speculation from the UK.

Interesting backgrounder from Juan Cole.

And here’s a rather downbeat assessment of on-the-ground consequences from Wired’s Danger Room.

Posted by StrangeAppar8us on 06/22/10 at 03:59 PM • Permalink

More unattributed speculation from the UK.

I see Free Republic and Stormfront are still cybersquatting the Telegraph‘s comments feed.

@YAFB—Apparently, so am I. But thankfully someone at FR reminded the thread that Mattis is probably a long-shot, or at least a real bad idea:

On February 1, 2005, Lieutenant General Mattis, speaking Ad libitum at a forum in San Diego, said “You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn’t wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain’t got no manhood left anyway. So it’s a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them. Actually, it’s a lot of fun to fight. You know, it’s a hell of a hoot. It’s fun to shoot some people. I’ll be right upfront with you, I like brawling.” Mattis’s remarks sparked controversy and General Michael W. Hagee, Commandant of the Marine Corps, issued a statement suggesting that Mattis should have chosen his words more carefully, but would not be disciplined.[5]

CNN now reporting McChrystal will definitely resign.  My thinking having solidified over the last few hours:  Obama should kick his butt into the stratosphere.  Or accept the resignation, whichever works.  War is not a frat party.  People are dying out there.  Do your job, take it seriously and keep your insolent crap to yourself.

This sounds like a shit-canning to me:

At 9:51 a.m., Obama and McChrystal sat down privately in the Oval Office. By 10:21 a.m., the meeting was over.

There was apparently another meeting right after that one with top AfPak advisors, and McC didn’t attend. If that’s true, he’s toast.

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